UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Here's the problem...

I'm using a simulator on UNIX, and it requires a filename where bits are stored, it should read them out and do whatever with them at that point..

So what i'm trying to do is make a binary file on UNIX. On my PC i can use MSDEV, or any of my C++ compilers to generate a .bin file, is there a way to easly do this on UNIX?

I tried making a binary file on the PC and FTP-ing it over to my UNIX box, but the simulator treated it as a text document and read them it as a bunch of 30's and 31's (ASCII 0's and 1's).

Any ideas anyone?

Well, what I'm looking for is indeed a binary data file for the simulator... I understand little of UNIX because I only use it for work, and have had little exposure to it outside of that.

All I know of the system is it's called solaris, it's not a Linux system, I don't know what hardware it runs on, or how to find that out.

I'll try to be a little more specific on what i'm attempting:
* I need a file full of bits. (so i'm assuming that has to be a binary file).
* The file will be opened by the simulator and read out 1 byte at a time.

When I made a text file on emacs and wrote in it:
11001110000...

The simulator opened the file and read out the first 8 char's (left to right) and treated them as ASCII chars instead of reading out the first 8 bits and treating it as a byte of data like I had hoped for.

I'm sorry if i'm not making this very clear... I thought it would be an easy thing to just make a file that the simulator could read...

Yup, writting the code worked to make my binary data file.
Thanks!